Today is International Coffee Day
Grab a cuppa Joe and enjoy your favourite caffeine-laden drink.
Whether you favour espresso, Americanos, lattes, cappuccinos or an old-fashioned filter coffee, Coffee Day is the day to savour and appreciate your favourite beverage.
Coffee drinking was popularised in the Arab world from around the 15th century. It spread across Asia, then to Italy and across Europe to the Americas – and finally to your coffee cup.
Coffee Day, 1 October, also marks the long history of the drink: the properties of coffee beans are thought to have been discovered in Ethiopia. The beans are actually the pits found in the coffee berry or cherry. The story goes that a ninth century goat herder noticed their stimulating effects of the beans or seeds on his goats and began experimenting.
Today, coffee is one of the world’s major crops, so buying ethically grown coffee is all the more important – be sure to be selective when buying your cup of coffee and support ethical trade.
See also:
•Water bottles: worse than a dog’s bowl
•Ysterperde en koffie meng hier
